Bibliograph

A childhood, the biography of a place, Harry Crews ; foreword by Tobias Wolff

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A childhood, the biography of a place, Harry Crews ; foreword by Tobias Wolff

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A childhood

Oclc number

1258040298

Responsibility statement

Harry Crews ; foreword by Tobias Wolff

Series statement

Penguin classics

Sub title

the biography of a place

Summary

"This memoir by Harry Crews captures the first six years of his life among impoverished tenant farmer families in rural southern Georgia. Crews shares details of farm life, his father's death, his friendship with the son of a Black hired hand; his bout with polio; his mother and stepfather's failing marriage; his near-fatal scalding at a hog-killing; and a five-month sojourn in Jacksonville, Florida. As an introduction to Crews's fiction, this portrait of the people, locales, circumstances, and Bacon County lore that shaped him, offers a foundation of the writer's outlook, the refuge he found in his storytelling imagination, and his affection for the outsider, the outcast, and those considered freakish"--, Provided by publisher

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